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[EN] The massive use of social media makes it increasingly easy to find highly sensitive information about almost anyone on the Internet. Despite the efforts of social media platforms to provide their users with tools to manage their privacy, these are proving insufficient due to their complexity. For this reason, it has been considered necessary to develop a software tool based on a multi-agent system to help users to improve and correct their bad behavior by using automation mechanisms and transmitting the information in a natural way for them, replicating the behavior of a human being. The aim of our work is to implement a multi- agent system where agents interact organically with each other and with human users on the PESEDIA social network, so that they can support user in a non-intrusive manner, using paternalistic techniques through actions available on the social network. ; This work has been funded thanks to the Spanish Government through project TIN2017-89156-R and predoctoral contract PRE2018-084940. ; Pérez-García, D.; Argente, E. (2020). Simulating Users in a Social Media Platform Using Multi-agent Systems. Springer Nature. 486-498. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61705-9_40 ; S ; 486 ; 498 ; Alemany, J., del Val, E., Alberola, J., García-Fornes, A.: Enhancing the privacy risk awareness of teenagers in online social networks through soft-paternalism mechanisms. Int. J. Hum.-Comput. Stud. 129, 27–40 (2019) ; Argente, E., Vivancos, E., Alemany, J., García-Fornes, A.: Educando en privacidad en el uso de las redes sociales. Educ. Knowl. Soc. 18(2), 107–126 (2017) ; Bell, L., Gustafson, J.: Interaction with an animated agent in a spoken dialogue system. In: 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (1999) ; Cassell, J., Thorisson, K.R.: The power of a nod and a glance: envelope vs. emotional feedback in animated conversational agents. Appl. Artif. Intell. 13(4–5), 519–538 (1999) ; Cerrato, L., Ekeklint, S.: Different ways of ending human-machine dialogues. In: Proceedings of the ...

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Recently, there has been a significant increase in the use of social media, especially among the new generation of users. In parallel with this increase, social media platforms have highlighted the concept of social commerce - an extension of e-commerce - and put it on the current agenda. In social commerce, social media platforms are used to share, create, and request product information, perceptions, and views, with customers also making purchases.

The social commerce intention of the new generation via social media platforms is the focus of this study. This study investigates the social commerce intention of students at a public university in Yalova, Turkey, to purchase products via Instagram and the factors that affect this intention. 296 students participated in the study. Findings suggest that the price and reputation of social commerce vendors positively affect user trust. Also, habit, perceived ease of use, and hedonic motivation also positively affect social commerce intention. Trust in the social vendor positively affects social commerce intention. Other hypotheses are rejected. This study contributes to the literature by analysing the role of different factors in social commerce intention.

The current research sought a comprehensive understanding about the consequences of information-sharing behavior on social media, given public concerns about privacy violations. We used a mixed-methods approach to investigate the influence of the self on "revealing" and emotional "healing" experiences online. Respondents completed a survey measuring sense of self and motivations for using social media, as well as revealing and healing attitudes and behavior. We conducted a principal component factor analysis on separate parts of the survey and ran Pearson correlations of the emerging factors. Qualitative data describing experiences of online self-disclosure were used to illustrate the correlational findings. The "revealing" factors contrasted adaptive with maladaptive and naïve posting. The sense of self, as well as motivations for social media use, influenced whether users engaged in destructive posting behaviors. The "healing" factors were associated with positive motivations for self-disclosure, seeking a supportive online community, and building resilience. Correlational data revealed that respondents with an insecure or asocial sense of self felt the greater need for online self-disclosure. Motivations to self-disclose online and experiences of "healing", with the help of a supportive online community, depended on whether the sense of self was secure, insecure, or asocial.

While television was once the battleground over what constituted a nuisance, today, social media companies are being sued for allegedly causing a widespread public nuisance.
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Nonprofit organizations and groups depend on donations and volunteers for their survival. Digital media can help by offering a platform for making online donations and facilitating online volunteering, but also by identifying and connecting with people who are sympathetic to an organization's mission. This article employs four-country (USA, UK, France, and Canada) representative survey data ( n = 6291) to examine the use of social media for establishing connections between citizens and organizations as well as the relationship of these connections to online and offline volunteering and donating. Across all social media platforms considered (Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter), I find significant positive correlations of following nonprofits with online and offline volunteering and donating. However, Facebook has a slightly larger role, which may be attributed to its overall popularity, which can incentivize organizations' more intense use of this platform.

This article examines the growing importance of Facebook as a location-focused platform. Facebook's approach has been cautious but deliberate. However, following the strategic acquisitions of location-sharing start-ups Gowalla and Glancee, Facebook has ramped up its location-based services: they launched their Nearby feature in December 2012, and adjusted their application programming interface (API) in early 2013 to enable 'seamless' location-sharing across third-party applications. These, and more recent acquisitions, are part of ambitious, longer-term moves that reposition Facebook as a local recommendation service (taking on Foursquare and Yelp), and, significantly, establish Facebook as a key local, and increasingly mobile-centred, advertising portal (taking on Google).